I am doing a report on the Second Quebec
Conference and would like some information on Friedrich
Lindemann (Lord Cherwell). I have been unable to find
anything except the fact that his father was German. I am
curious about his animosity toward everything German. I
would appreciate any assistance you could offer. Thank
you.

Friedrich
Lindemann, the later Lord Cherwell (right) was
born in the Alsace -- in Metz I think. There is an excellent
book on him called
The
Prof, by Roy Harrod; this
fine book was my introduction to him. On the Second Quebec
Conference you will find that the British government have
now released recently a lot of previously secret files:
Public Record office file PRO CAB.126/183 Hyde Park
memorandum [on the atomic-bomb agreement], Sept
1944, Mar 25, 1945 - February 17, 1947, and files before and
after that; their website is now machine searcheable (you
should reach it at http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/
). Have a look too at my introduction
to the Morgenthau Plan, which
evolved at that conference (I published a book on that, but
only in German).

Although many of his critics thought that
he was of Jewish origin, almost certainly he was not. Lord
Cherwell is one of the people I would most have liked to
meet. But he died many years ago